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Auroville just turned 50.Aurovilians who grew up in the experimental city speak of how their childhood was marked by a sense of openness and possibility.Nikita Puri reports from the City of Dawn. IMAGE: Auroville's Matrimandir, with its geodisic dome, took 37 years to build and is covered with gold discs. Photograph: Kind courtesy DR/Wikimedia Commons When Francis Neemberry, a Brooklyn-born American, wrote to his mother from India in the 1970s, he had a strange request: Could she send him 100 ...Rediff.com, 2 days ago

Ceasing of hostilities between India and Pakistan along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir must be on Indian terms, Army chief Bipin Rawat today said, noting that Pakistani forces have been feeling the "pain" of Indian Armys offensive along the border. He alluded ...

A COUPLE OF PAGES into Small Acts of Freedom , it occurred to me that there was really nothing to justify the publication of this book. Then came the sweetness of familial memories, and the pathos of Gurmehar Kaur’s father’s martyrdom in Kargil, all told ...

Today, when one Kamalahaasan launches a new political outfit, vowing to cleanse Tamil Nadu polity and political administration of corruption, mal-governance and non-governance, he is pitted not only against Rajini with his commitment to ‘spiritual politics’, he is also pitted against the real ‘Lotus’ in Tamil Nadu politics, representing the ruling BJP at the Centre, says N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Kamalahaasan with DMK supremo M Karunanidhi and his son, M K Stalin, on ...

'The best course for India is to wait out the implosion that is bound to take place in Pakistan sooner than later.'We have to ensure that the fallings debris from a collapsing State does not damage us,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd). IMAGE: Family members, Indian Army soldiers and locals in Kupwara carry the body of JCO Mohammad Ashraf Mir, the Kashmiri soldier who was martyred in the terrorist attack at the Sunjuwan army camp attack. Photograph: Umar Ganie The second week of February saw ...

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field IMAGE: Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates scoring. Photograph: Sergio Perez/Reuters Cristiano Ronaldo bagged a hat-trick as Real Madrid thrashed Real Sociedad 5-2 in La Liga on Saturday to warm up for their Champions League clash with Paris St Germain in style. Real's big victory over Sociedad took them third above Valencia but they trail Barcelona by 16 points as they turn their attention to the defence of their ...

'What we need is right skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling.' One thing experts working in the field of employment talk about the most is the need for fresh graduates to have new skills. They also say it is important for the employed to re-skill themselves as technology is changing very fast. It is with this mind that Ma Foi, founded in 1992 by K Pandiarajan and his wife Latha Rajan as a recruitment agency which later transformed to a business consulting house, started the Ma Foi Academy. The ...

Kabul:An explosives-packed ambulance blew up in a crowded area of Kabul today, killing at least 95 people and wounding 158 others, officials said, in one of the biggest blasts to rock the war-torn city in recent years. The Taliban-claimed assault -- the ...

The Trump administration plans to open the United States embassy in Jerusalem by the end of 2019, a State Department official said on Monday. In December, Trump said that the US recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and announced to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to the historic city. “The administration will advance its plan to open the US embassy in Jerusalem and will open the embassy before the end of next year,” State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said. More ...

'The Indian and Israeli rabbis were singing a small departure song for brave little Moshe, who had spent many, likely, heartbreaking but bittersweet hours at this home of his babyhood, looking at the drawings his mother had made for him, that were still up in his room.' Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel -- who reported extensively on the 26/11 attacks and traveled to Israel to meet Sandra Samuel, the nanny who saved Moshe from the terrorists -- reports on the little boy's return to the home ...